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Milk Strike at Stanley

Date: 1932
Description: Crowd gathered for the milk strike at Stanley.
Photograph

Cottage

Date: 1936
Description: View of a Hilbert Lake cottage surrounded by trees and foliage.
Photograph

Rennebohm Campaigning

Date: 11 1956
Description: Oscar Rennebohm distributing Republican Party campaign literature during the 1956 campaign, probably in the Milwaukee area. The brochure he is holding urg...
Photograph

Isabel Bacon La Follette on farm in Mazomanie

Date: 1942
Description: Isabel Bacon La Follette holding a rake on the farm Philip purchased in northwestern Dane County.
Print

Old Timer's Resort Brochure

Date: 1910
Description: Cover of brochure for Old Timer's Resort (formerly Burke's Resort).
Print

International Harvester Engine Trade Card

Date: 1905
Description: Advertising card for International Harvester stationary engines. Features a color illustration of a young girl fetching water from a trough. A pump powered...
Postcard

Lincoln-Todd Monument

Date: 1945
Description: Lincoln-Todd Monument in East Park. Caption reads: "Lincoln-Todd Monument, Racine, Wisconsin".
Photograph

Michael Bell, Nashotah House

Date: 1962
Description: Nashotah House, the Michael Bell. Clipping from "Oconomowoc Enterprise," November 22, 1962. More information from clipping on reverse of card.
Print

Cheese & Butter Table

Date: 1937
Description: Advertising brochure for Wisconsin's dairy industry issued by the State Department of Agriculture. It depicts Wisconsin as the table upon which cheese and...
Photograph

Thomas Mattis with Lambs

Date: 05 1919
Description: Young Thomas Oliver Mattis holds two lambs.
Photograph

Amasa Cobb in Later Years

Date: 1900
Description: Portrait with walking cane of Amasa Cobb as an elderly man.
Book or Pamphlet

Log Book Cover

Date: 1903
Description: Front cover of a log book kept by Preston Reynolds on his canoe trip down the Wisconsin and Mississippi Rivers.
Book or Pamphlet

Preston Reynolds' Route Map

Date: 1903
Description: Map drawn by Preston Reynolds of the route taken by him and his traveling companions on the Wisconsin and Mississippi Rivers from Kilbourn, Wisconsin to Ro...
Photograph

Frederick Jackson Turner at Hancock Point

Date: 1927
Description: Frederick Jackson Turner poses with a gun in his hand outdoors at Hancock Point on Frenchman's Bay.
Print

Victory Garden Seed Order Form

Date: 1943
Description: Front side of order blank for Aunt Jenny's Garden for Victory seeds featuring a drawing of a woman and several vegetables.
Print

Heider Tractor Pamphlet

Date: 1920
Description: Front cover of a pamphlet advertising the Heider tractor, made and sold by Rock Island Plow Company. The pamphlet features a decorative border surrounding ...
Print

Heider Tractor and Plow Advertisement

Date: 1920
Description: Front cover of a pamphlet advertising Heider tractors. A photograph of a man using a tractor and plow is placed at the top and a label reading: "Return to ...
Book or Pamphlet

Rock Island Plow Company Brochure

Date: 1920
Description: Back cover of a brochure advertising Rock Island Plow Company farm machinery. The advertisement features lists of agricultural equipment produced by the co...
Book or Pamphlet

Power Behind Farm Profits Brochure

Date: 1919
Description: Back cover of a brochure produced by the Rock Island Plow Company advertising Heider tractors as "The Power behind Farm Profits." The cover lists Heider tr...
Book or Pamphlet

Nilson Tractor Pamphlet

Date: 1919
Description: Front cover of a pamphlet advertising Nilson tractors. The captions surrounding an illustration of the tractor read: "Nilson Patented Lever Hitch," "The Ha...

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